Re: Odd Filesystem Error?
Adrian Bridgett (adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com)
Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:28:09 +0000
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 08:15:04PM -0700, Robert L Harris wrote:
> On kernel 2.1.76 I get this:
>
> /dev/sda1 on /scsi1 type vfat (rw,umask=000)
>
> {0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>ls -la /scsi1/pcm*
> ls: /scsi1/pcm*: No such file or directory
>
> {0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>ls -la pcm*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nomad users 652564 Dec 23 15:50 pcmcia-cs-2.9.12.tar.gz
>
> {0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>cp pcmcia-cs-2.9.12.tar.gz /scsi1
> cp: /scsi1/pcmcia-cs-2.9.12.tar.gz: Operation not permitted
> {0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>ls -la /scsi1/pcm*
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 652564 Dec 29 20:19 /scsi1/pcmcia-cs-2.9.12.tar.gz
>
>
> NOTE: It gave an error saying it couldn't copy the file from the ext2 to the
> vfat, yet it's there. I did check file integrity and it is sane. This
> isn't a showstopper, but it is strange/annoying.
I have a feeling that this is because it cannot set the correct
permissions/owner/group on the file. I have this in my /etc/mtab:
/dev/hda1 /dos vfat rw,quiet,uid=8670,gid=12200 0 0
Adrian
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